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Well, crap. I have no idea why or when it happened but the Threshold setting when using Threaded-TOS appears to be non-functional at the moment. It's supposed to set the value below which a comment and any of its subcomments will be collapsed, unless a subcomment is over the Breakthrough value which should cause that comment only to be expanded. Right now it's functioning as if Threshold were set to 6. I never noticed it because I have both settings set to -1.
I can't monkey with it right this second but I'll see if I can get it fixed some time this weekend. Just a hotfix patch to the live code not a full site update.
Beats doing construction work in the rain I suppose.
Update: Okay, I can't fix something that ain't broke and TOS is functioning as intended. I just forgot that Threshold applied only to top-level comments, all subcomment trees should be collapsed by default, and Breakthrough was the setting for subcomments to show up no matter what. This doesn't make sense to me but then I'm not the one who decided it should function like that and I don't use TOS. If you lot want it to function differently or want a new mode that's similar, drop your insipid inspired ideas here and if there's enough demand I'll put it on the todo list.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Saturday January 18 2020, @06:35PM (5 children)
Hmnm, at a glance, not quite sure if I see that issue, but it is very good that folks here are concerned about fixing things like that.
Since we are talking about small bugs/issues, one suggestion - the topic search icons at the top of the site would be a tad more useful if they defaulted to showing new content first rather than old content. For example, if I click on the rehash icon currently at the top, seeing this story would be more useful and expected than seeing "Help Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation On June 4th, 2015 with 79 comments". Of course, we can still search any way we want. As always, there could be some non-obvious reason it is the way it is.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @06:53PM (3 children)
The default sort order for comments also is "by relevance", which never is. Better to just sort newer to older.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @10:28PM (2 children)
Can you make it sort by political orientation, so anything to liberal goes to the bottom where it belongs.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @12:10AM (1 child)
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Sunday January 19 2020, @04:37PM
What...did Hillary order a pizza?
;)
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(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Sunday January 19 2020, @07:48PM
THIS, so much THIS.
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